XX Horror

The Feminine and the Horrific

Transmission #8

Occam's Razor Cuts Deep

Sharpening Occam’s Razor

The Crime

Status: Complete (see Transmission #7)

Sequence of Events

Cleaning Up Situation in Kingsport

Rose Has Another Fainting Spell

Race Back to Town

Interviewing O. Olsen — Long Live Livonia!

Visiting Dr. Armitage

Arresting Dr. Armitage

Final Report

Victim: Ed Gain, the driver of Ms. Pickman and bodyguard to ArmitagePerpetrator: H. ArmitageMotive: Desperate need for a human sacrifice to drive empower the Red BoxOpportunity: Gain had discovered the sacrifice room, attempted to fleeMeans: The Red Hook of the Time-lost ArmitageMythos Angle: Red Armitage can must fuel the Red Box with sacrifices.

Session Recap

Document Review

Investigated

Weirdness #1: Livonian Knights

A historical crusading order in the Baltic. Successful in converting local pagans to Christianity without the ethnic cleansing practiced by Teutons on the original Prussians.

Olsen is from a Scandinavian family with some Livionian heritage, alive in old folksongs and tales passed down.

Strange mention of the knights journeying to G’nac.

Weirdness #5: Emrys Dorian Wynn “Mediataions On an Attic Figure”

obscure Welsh Romantic poet.

his book can make one more attuned to the powers of hypnotism, and the subtle connections between myths of dying and the nightmarish rising gods

Uninvestigated

Weirdness #2: International Logospheric Union

Bernard Petrovich

Jukka Lavi

the Seven Deadly Finns

Weirdness #3: The Nophru-Ka Panel

14th Dynasty Egypt

GM’s Prep Notes

Victim: Ed Gain, the driver of Ms. Pickman and bodyguard to ArmitagePerpetrator: H. ArmitageMotive: Desperate need for a human sacrifice to drive empower the Red BoxOpportunity: Gain had discovered the sacrifice room, attempted to fleeMeans: The Red Hook of the Time-lost ArmitageMythos Angle: Red Armitage can must fuel the Red Box with sacrifices.

The Clues to the Crime

“Armitage’s House”

Architecture reveals that Armitage’s house has an extra room

And there is a chamber in it

Behind a bookshelf

Mechanics

Player/Character = Ted/Angus

Ability = Architecture

“Armitage’s 1908 Past”

Interrogation will point out that Armitage did become obsessed with a time-control spell in 1908